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_ FAR TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.
Tharsday, March 17, 1965.
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Williams Lake T ribune
Bstablishea 7 81 Ciive Siangos, Editor
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Failure of some towns to develop natural growth in Pros.
perous times is usually attributable to economic circumstances
over which no one has any control, but here in Williams Lake
the retarding factor is land, as was pointed out at last week’s
Board of Trade meeting.
Lack of housing accommodation over the past five years
has acted as a constricting influence on business growth. If
you doubt that statement, put yourself in the place of a bus:
nessman contemplating expansion. Along with the prospect
of laying out more capital to acquire equipment, space and
stock, he must hire more men, and that consideration is the
sticker. If he brings in men, where will they live? There is no
Tentable space, few homes for sale even if they were prepared
to put out a sizeable amount of cash, and the number of vacant
lots available is negligible. ;
It is not possibe to do much about the first two conditions,
but it is high time that something was done about the last one.
In the past five years two sub-divisions have been put on
the market by the 'Pacifie Great Eastern Railway Company,
owner of the land immediately surrounding the town. These
have been bought up and there is no immediate prospect of
ny -more lots being available. i
A year ago officials of the railway company, ineluding
Hon. Ralph Chetwynd, minister of railways, were in town
talking over this same problem with our village commizs-
sioners. At that time there were high hopes that a complete
program of land development and planning would result, a
Plan that would take care of the town’s immediate and future
growth.
Nothing has been done, or if it has, no one in Williams
Lake has heard about it.
Certainly nothing has been done for the immediate prob-
lem. If the sub-division on the highway just outside of town
was to be the next piece cf land to be made available, survey-
ing should have been carried out last summer and about now
the lots.should have been placed on the open market so that
prospective home owners could have the opportunity to make
use of the summer construction period,
We know that the railway company’s Officials are busy
these days with the work of pushing both ends of the line at
the same time, but we think a not so gentle reminder that they
have a little problem of land to settle in the centre of their
interests would not go amiss.
We don’t mind the railway expanding but we would like
to do a little ourselves.
Daily Air Service Returns
Decision of Canadian Pacifie Airlines to return to a six-
day a week service on the flight from Vancouver to Prince
George is.a welcome one locally. With all the evidence around
us of continued economic growth, it came as a distinct shock
when one of our major transportation mediums curtailed
service a year ago on a more or legs permanent basis. We felt
the lack of service itself, but even more damaging was the
effect of the decision publicity-wise. It is difficult to speak to
an outsider of the blossoming of the Cariboo into economic
importance in one breath and then have to admit in the next
that the company providing air service to this part of the
province has cut its service in half.
The Board of Trade deserves a great deal of credit in not
letting the matter of air service lie dormant, They continually
Spearheaded agitation among neighboring centres to revive
the daily service.
The Thin Red Lines
Springing to the defence of the poor consumer, some of
the members of parliament this session, including our own
Davie Fulton, attacked the practice of pre-wrapping sliced
bacon in red-stripped cellophane. Contention of the opposi-
tionists to the practice was that the narrow red stripes tend
to give the bacon a leaner appearance than it actually
Possesses,
Wonder if the next attack will be aimed at reversing the
machine that carefully lays out the bacon strips in the little
Packages with the lean side showing.
ae Cen ee eee eee
Decision of big Gordon Gibson to take to the hustings
and fight for re-election on the question of government policy
of forest management will result in more lumber being cut
in Lillooet this summer than in all the other lumbering areas
of the province combined ...from the platform, that is.
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The Cracker Barrel Forum
By AJ.
Drinkell
: : Tenens To The Editor
A group of American scientists
are presently toying with the. ‘Big-
gest Atomic Blasts Ever,” in the
Concurrently there-
h our legislators ‘are bu
legislation forbidding litle Tommy
to set off so muchas a tiny squib in
the wide open spaces of Britisn |
Columbia. It is proposed to grant
the M.L.A.’s a cost of living bonus |
in recognition of their valuable ser- |
vices. While the gentlemen>areJ
figuring how best to get a kick out of
the bonus we are willing to wager
our young hel-
lions will be cal-
culating the bang
to be obtained
out of a bunch of
purloined dyna-
mite caps. We
| wish all the spoil-
sports‘
enjoyment o £
subsequent con-
cussions.
DIDN'T TAKE BAIT
The enquiry’ into the issuing of
forest management licences will go
down in history as one of the shor
est on record, ApparenUy Mr.-Gibson
did not care for the smell of the
bait so just walked around the trap
and then proceeded to get the jump
on the trap setters by resigning his
seat in order to obtain the approval
of his constituents. It now looks as
though we may have an investiga-
tion of the Liberal leader, Mr. Laing.
At the time of Writing the’ Minister
of Public Works, having temporarily
overlooked thé admonition to turn
the other cheek, is crying out loudly
for Mr. Laing’s blood. We hope that
with the passing of time the Socreds
will become inured to robust criti.
cism. Surely, after a few years in
the driver’s seat they will develop a
callous or two here and there and
become less thin skinned. Enqniri
even when short, are expensive pa:
times. On the other hand, if the old]
line parties hope to regain contro)
of the reins they had better come up
with some really constructive criti-
cism and qifit pretending they never
heard of patronage and pork-barrels
until the Social Credit party took
over their stock-in-trade, along with
the “good-will.” ‘
PAMOUS NATIVE AMERICANS
\ We learn that a stalw ge
passing
alive to our résponsi
bone shark, is the most massive ct
all fishes, attaining a length of 36
feet and an enormous w
a dull and sluggish animal, but- it
is said that a blow from its tail ¥
Whalers
its liver. | j
brave of one of the tribes
chose to study law r:
the happy state of m
pondering this
item at our last hold-forth, the boys
were not so on |
for reading law as by the fact he was
Studying it, and proposes to practice | Make.
it in the Northern Interior when his |
tudies are completed. Their cozita-| :
tions naturally led the boys to reeatt | Cele Seneca
Andy Paall, Drank Clgevest pic; | Vevey fon i
fume nd) gn, arury commander and |S UbOwNDE eS ee
several high school teachers eman- y &
ating from tribes farther east. Most
of these men were educated by gen-
erous financial assistance trom their
fellow tribesmen,
coast
her than enter; -
trimony. While
new:
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Williams Lake Tribune,
an terests To the Editor—
rprised by his x
Lake in-my Cessna 180 ti
arin and the date.
My best wishes to your
club’ and menibers. _ 1
When we think of them and what
they have done for their people in fo
return we are moved to suggest C:
past ten
LIKED ARTICLE
Chilko Lake Lodge’ my area, approx. 1 hour. T was look-
Aor
J frequently fly over from Chilko
© visit the
mm certainly
hospitality of the
ugh to tell
me the address of Zeta Graysen ana
what coast paper the article will ap-
new flying
have flown
over a thousand hours in your lovely
‘ariboo and Chilebtin country in the
years and enjoyed every
tda has sadly neglected a valuable| moment of fe
asset by not according our Indians Siheeraiy
greater educational facilities and TL. Gamer.
other amenities, which would have
had an uplifting effect instead of
causing them’to think they are made
of some inferior kind of clay. In this |
Ed. Note:
been forwarded.
| act
neck of the woods, in particular, the .
reservations have long since outlived : Merely
= ar Editor:
auy Washiiness ley! may nave Minn, | 7o2t Sailers i
Peete nought 1 we aie
and it is high time we paid some ae ould mre
L to help aleviate the
attention to conve ng our ja th. 1
D € people in or
population into really usefnl eitizens peone: in'_or! about
Jake, who on the nig
thought their
Playing trieks on them.
ht or
eyesight
und ineuleate them with the sense o}
pride and dignity which befits that
Status, .T) eannot he accomplished
by tacties we so loudly condemn the
communists for using in déalin
with their victims. Until we become
bilities, mo:
and otherwise, just so long will we
neglect a lot of latent talent.
Nature
Sea Serpent?
Scrapbook |
Zoologists usually find that the
skeletons of ‘‘sea serpents” found in
SIZED SNOWPLAKY
The information has
11, 1955.
this letter
of some of
Williams
Mareh 8th
might be
Seems we
had a freak snow storm, lasting in
ing out the window at 1 a.m., as my
husband comes trom work about
that time. Having the poreh lizht on
1 ¥ead with interest your article|! €WMd see the snow falling thick
about Gerry Bracewell of Tatlayoko | “74 fast. T looked out, then shat
my
eyes tight, opening them arain I
peered out It still looked the same.
Snow flakes? from %% to 1 inc wide
and from 1 ineh to 4 inches long.
When my husband came in } asked
if he had noticed anything o¢ | about
the snow. He said, he had seen some
long-looking snow falling in the
beam of the headlights from the car.
but credited it te his eyes being
tired. The next day at wok one of.
the fellows mentioned seeing the
phenomena too. So fellow eye suf-
fevers you don’t need specs yet. No
doubt it was caused by the high fly-
ing storm which was reported flying
over B.C. Tuesday night.
Has anyone a geiger-counter?
Yours truly,
EB. L, :
Williams Lake, B.C,
True item, Which might be of
some use to your paper, happened
only yesterday. ,
My little girl burst in the door
“Mommy! You said
th themselves. I just
saw. one washing itseli with its
tongue like a pussy cat.”
Js that bathing?
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this coast turn out to be basking| _
sharks. According to Jordan, this
huge, clumsy shark of the northern
seas, called also elephant shark and
ight. It is
ordinary whalehoat.
jonaliy take it for
From the Files
of the Tribune
ONE YEAR AGO
March 18, 1954
An armed robber éscaped with
$600 from the 150 Mile General
Store. Trained dogs were used. to
trail the man but lost his scent—
Charley Johnson, chief of the Alkali
Lake tribe, and Charlie Alphonse,
member of the Anahim Reserve, are
to be honored for their valuable ser-
vices by receiving the Queen's Cor-
onation Medal— Mrs. Richards, one
of the earliest settlers at Forest
Grove, lost her home in an early
morning fire— The student staff of
the High School pulished The Tri-
bune this week— An aerial seeding
experiment tried in Chileotin on 40
acrés in an effort to restore rapidly
depleting range land— ‘The new
Post office opened at 169 Mile House
— The Annual Firemen’s Ball avew
a large crowd— New Indian Re:
dential School is nearing completion,
FIVE YEARS AGO
March 16, 1950"
The Williams Lake Badminton
Club captured the Woodland ‘Trophy
for the third successive year— 105
businessmen turned out to bid good-
bye to Norm Schroeder, former man-
ager of the Bank of Commerce—
William Dingwall was elected presi-
dent of the B.C. Hereford Associ:
tion— Sally Richardson was named
the mos uable player on the
junior girls basketball team— jy,
J. Gardner & Sons announc
struction of a new warehouse—The
Williams Lake Gun Club was formea
naming Jack Smedley the firs
dent—
con-
t presi-
TEN YEARS AGO
Mareh 15, 1945
Sgt. John BE, Dodd was presented
with Medal by Field
Montgomery— ‘The ypion-
cer store at Horse tly been sold io
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Gibhons— Ay
80 {t. timber to be used as an al
at Riske Creek was hauled from
Quesnel Lake. The difficult, trip was
Aecomplished in nine hours—
TWENTY YEARS AGO
March, 21. 1935
Cattle prices Went up to 7% cents,
the highest fdr some years— Mr.
and M: Herber, back of the ’41,
lost their home and entire contents |
in a fire which originated from a de-|
fective fue— The Bank of Montreal |
adding machine— The |
Chileotin }
to traffic between § a.m and 10 p.m.
— Hotel rooms advertised 1
a month and meals at
hway has been closed
EDWARD M. TAKAHASHI
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